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More than a million people have opened a Help to Buy ISA, the government savings account designed to enable first time buyers to get on the property ladder. The scheme was launched on 1 December 2015 to provide potential buyers with the opportunity to save up to £200 a month with the government topping up
A homeowner has won the right to walk over her neighbour’s land to inspect her gas and electricity meters and maintain her property. The case involved two detached houses separated by a driveway. The meters for 96 were set into the wall that was built along the boundary with 98. The driveway ran beside the
A mother has been allowed to change her son’s middle name despite an objection from his father. The case involved a boy who at birth was given two forenames by the parents and registered with both. He was most commonly known by his first name but the father used both and said that he favoured
Argos is one of more than 200 businesses to be named and shamed by HMRC for failing to pay employees the National Minimum Wage or Living Wage. The retail giant, which was taken over by Sainsburys last year, failed to pay a total of £1.4m to 12,176 of its workers. It was ordered to repay
A contractor has been ordered to pay £14.7m in damages after installing faulty glass in the former London Stock Exchange building. The High Court was told that the Exchange had been developed by the contractor under a design and build contract dated January 2006. The building featured a 26-storey tower clad with toughened glass panels
A director has succeeded in recovering money from the estate of a colleague who breached his legal duty by diverting funds and business opportunities to a rival company. The case involved two directors, Nigel Clegg and Andrew Pache, who were joint shareholders in a company trading steel. Clegg alleged that from 2004 until shortly before
A landlord who temporarily transferred ownership of a block of flats to his wife has won his appeal in an enfranchisement case. The court heard that in 2004, the landlord’s tenants gave initial notice of their intention to exercise their legal right to acquire the freehold of the property. The landlord served a counter-notice disputing
The energy company E.On has won a longstanding dispute over who should bear the costs for repairs to an offshore wind farm. The issue arose because of seemingly conflicting clauses in the contract to construct the Robin Rigg wind farm in the North Sea. The contractor, the Danish company MT Højgaard (MTH), was required to
A telecommunications firm has defended its trademark against infringement by a rival that adopted a similar name and logo. The case involved the company COREIX, which registered its name and mark in 2010 for telecommunication and computer services. In 2013, another company registered the mark CORETX in a different business sector. However, in 2016, CORETX
More than 105,000 businesses have now been set up with the help of the New Enterprise Allowance (NEA), a fund for budding entrepreneurs with an idea for a new company. Under the scheme, successful applicants get access to a business mentor, financial support for up to 6 months and may be able to apply for